Another song of the "signifyin' monkey" family is Dave Batholomew's "The Monkey Speaks His Mind." One monkey explains to another why he can't believe in evolution -- humans could *never* be descended from our noble race! Dave is a great long-time New Orleans bandleader and arranger who has been Fats Domino's musical director for eons.

Dr. John recently recorded a new version of this one -- must be on his latest CD, since I've just recently begun hearing it regularly on New Orleans' own WWOZ-FM 90.7 (also available worldwide at www.wwoz.org; I always have to get that plug in!)